[GnarlinBrando]

All of this is just such antagonistic linkbate if you ask me. No offense to OP, but it really just seems like oh I had a controversial thought so I'll play up two sides.

Maybe one isn't better than the other? Maybe they are just different kinds of things and some people work better in one or the other. Maybe some projects do to. We live and work in dynamic environments and there is no big T Truth in design. People change, the requirements change, the market changes.

Indulging in this kind of petty software holier-than-thou while highlighting only flaws and failures as defining characteristics of another generation is only destructive for the entire community.

If OP was serious this would have actually been about showing a new generation of coders good cathedrals, and not just banal whining.